Get relative time - Node.js Date

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Description

Get relative time

Demo Code


/* Borrowed from http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/ */
function relative_time(time_value) {
    var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
    var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
    var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
    if(delta < 60) {
    return 'less than a minute ago';
    } else if(delta < 120) {
    return 'about a minute ago';
    } else if(delta < (45*60)) {
    return (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
    } else if(delta < (90*60)) {
    return 'about an hour ago';
    } else if(delta < (24*60*60)) {
    return 'about ' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours ago';
    } else if(delta < (48*60*60)) {
    return '1 day ago';
    } else {/*from ww  w.  j  a v a  2s  .co  m*/
    return (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
    }
}

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